The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) Criterion Collection

STARS...........: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan
DIRECTOR........: Peter Yates
WRITERS.........: Paul Monash
GENRE...........: Crime, Drama
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070077
RUNTIME.........: 1h 42mn
SIZE............: 5.19 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC (Main10@L4)
BITRATE.........: 7000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION......: 1920x1040
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.85:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO1..........: English AAC 1.0 197kbps
AUDIO2..........: Commentary with director Peter Yates
SUBTITLES.......: ENG
SOURCE..........: Criterion Blu-ray
ENCODE DATE.....: 2020-04-07


In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in an adaptation by Peter Yates of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle. World-weary and living hand to mouth, Coyle works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld just to make ends meet. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he’s forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free. Directed with a sharp eye for its gritty locales and an open heart for its less-than-heroic characters, this is one of the true treasures of 1970s Hollywood filmmaking—a suspenseful crime drama in stark, unforgiving daylight.


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